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Life moves pretty fast

Back in Mississippi now, I am trying to not let the reverse cultural shock get to me. I have a lot of photography projects that I am currently working on. I hope to finish them in the next couple of months.

I spend way too much time taking pictures and trying to learn new techniques, but can you ever really take too many photographs?

We are now living in Hattiesburg. You can probably find me eating catfish and turnip greens or looking for some good sweet tea!

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Snow and Birds

January 30, 2010

We are still in Kentucky and are here for at least another few days. The plan is to head to Little Rock on Wednesday to spend a couple of days with my aunt and then back to Hattiesburg,MS by Friday. We are in the middle of a huge snow storm here in Kentucky. We were supposed to get snow last night but it really didn’t start until about noon today. We have gotten a few inches already and are expecting about 8-10 inches total. Today was a pretty good day for photos. Here are a few from today:

Downy Woodpecker

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Redhead and Fruitloops

He let me get a couple of shots.

Grammy, JJ and Sheeba

Socks was not that into the snow.

Cutie

This guy loves this tree in my grandparent's yard.

Tags: Bald Eagle, Kentucky, Kentucky sno
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Deer

January 23, 2010

Deer-Deercollage

As you can see, we had some luck with our deer cam. We put out a bunch of corn and they seemed to enjoy it. We actually have been having to feed them twice a day. There are a couple of does that have been eating all the corn during the day and then letting the bucks have the crumbs at night. I started putting out most of the corn right before dark. The camera is actually set up about 30 yards from the house. I still can’t believe that the bigger deer have gotten this close to the house! We have been experimenting with moving the camera around for the perfect shot. I am sure that we will continue to try to capture some more images. There is a 10 point around here that I really want to get a shot of.

Can you see the coon?

This one appears to be a singer!

These two have eaten all of corn.

Tags: Deer Camera, Kentucky deer
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Studying Korean and a Deer Cam Intro

January 22, 2010

The picture really does not have that much to do with studying Korean except this is the new background for my twitter page which has been my new way to study Korean. I found TWIPL which is a Korean application to post photos on Twitter. I commented on a couple of photos in Korean and exchanged a couple messages with Korean Twitter users. I also started posting a few photos on TWIPL myself. For the last few days a few of my posts have been commented on by Korean speakers and I have been trying to post as much as I can in Korean. I have been pretty proud of the amount of their replies that I understand but still am having to use my dictionary, Google translator and JJ way too much for answering messages in Korean. I have started back with my flash card system and already have about 100 new words to learn. I also am back using the Seogang Series of text books. I am following about 10 Koreans on Twitter and hopefully will begin to understand more and more of their messages without assistance.

Deer Cam
I put out a wildlife camera a few days ago. The first few nights the camera was set up away from the house in the middle of the woods. We had no luck so my grandfather and I bought some corn and moved the camera closer to the house. We had seen some deer tracks and hoped for the best. We did get some photos but are having some problems with the flash firing way too early or way too late. We had given thought to opening the machine and attempting to fix it but decided that it would be way too advanced for us to do it. I will post more over our results tomorrow! I will say that all of our corn was gone and today I had to feed them twice.

Deer Camera with corn as bait

You can see the quality is very low...Not even a megapixel

These two does ate all my corn.

Tags: Deer Camera, Korean Twitter, Studying Korean with twitter, TWIPL, wildlife cam
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Around the House

January 12, 2010

JJ and I just got back from a great dinner with our friend Billie from Korea. Billie was hired to teach at my school and he didn’t work with us long till we realized that he knew my grandparents. We saw him for the first time since he left Korea. We went out to a local sports bar and really enjoyed retelling stories from Korea.

JJ and I left from our dinner with Billie and drove to Paris, Tennessee. We had to drive to Paris because we are currently living in a dry county, so that means no alcohol sales at all. I was thrilled to find Fat Tire which I love! I fell in love with this beer when I was working at Yellowstone 9 years ago and have had the hardest time finding it. They are not allowed to sell it in Mississippi because of the alcohol level. Doh~!

Today’s photos are just a few random images from around the house here in New Concord, Kentucky.

Sheeba posing in the front of the christmas tree

JJ and Poppa!

JJ's Kentucky Office

Gotta have sweet tea with a southern meal!

This guy was watching us when I woke up on Sunday!

Closeup of our peeping hawk.

Tags: Hawk, New Concord Kentucky, sweet tea
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Fun with Critters

January 9, 2010

You really don’t get to see too much wildlife in Korea. We have been enjoying our time in the hills of Kentucky. Here’s the photo evidence.

Not a happy bird.

These two were not real happy when I opened the balcony door.

Sheeba sitting in the bird feeder waiting on a meal.

JJ with Sheeba and Cleo waiting for a snack.

Tags: Kentucky deer, squirrel and bird
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Daily Walks

January 9, 2010

I have been trying to get some cardio everyday to keep my goals for Project 35(basically to lose 35lbs this year). I usually start walking around 1 or 2 and walk/hike for an hour or two. Every time I go out I see something unexpected. On Wednesday’s walk, I ran across a few turkeys, a bunch of woodpeckers, some whitetail deer, and a pair of bald eagles. The deer ran away too quickly for me to get a shot of them.

This turkey crossed right in front of me.

I have been chasing this Red Headed Woodpecker all around the lake trying to get a shot.

These guys were sitting above my car when I got back from my walk

When I got back, we realized that I had turned off the faucets in our bathroom last night. The pipes froze up and so my grandfather and I hooked up a shop vac on reverse to blow hot air into the paneling that holds the pipes. It was totally my fault but he took it all in stride. Luckily, the pipes did not burst. It took us about an hour to unfreeze the pipes.

frozenpipes

We got some snow on Thursday and today and I will post some more photos later. My grandmother is calling me into the kitchen for something that she has cooked. I swear I am going to gain 20lbs this month. Project 35 may turn into project 75.

Tags: bald eagles, Kentucky, Kentucky Lake, Red headed woodpecker, wild turkey
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The Round House and a Bird

January 4, 2010

When my Grandfather retired, he and my grandmother moved to New Concord, KY. They left their regular style home in Greenvile, MS and built a round(actually an octagon) house on Kentucky Lake. They have lived here for over 13 years and everyone in the area knows about the round house. In fact, the pilots at the local Airforce Base use it as a turn around spot. My grandmother has met a pilot who was thrilled to meet the lady who lived in the brown round house near the lake.

My Grandparent's Home

I was sitting in the den looking at the bird feeder when I noticed a huge black form in the top of one of the trees. I quickly realized that a bald eagle had landed in one of them. I ran out with my camera and was able to get a couple of shots before it flew away. I guess he was camera shy. It was an awesome site and I hope that I get a chance to get some more photos.

This was about when he noticed me.

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I think that I am going to rent a longer zoom lens for a couple of weeks. I am currently using a 70-200 f/4. I am thinking about renting a canon 100-400 and maybe a teleconverter. I did have to crop the eagle photos a little too much. I would love to have some super closeups.

Tags: Bald Eagle Photo, Kentucky Lake, Round House
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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2010

I hope that everyone had a great New Year~ JJ and I are starting the new year off with a trip to Kentucky to visit my grandparents. We will be in New Concord KY for little over a month. I have a lot of work to do helping my grandfather with some maintence around his house and I hope to be able to get some great landscape shots of Ketucky Lake and some of the older tobaco barns. It also sounds like we will visit a couple of the distillers while we are in KY. I am looking forward to visiting Jim Beam.

We played around with some sparkles tonight but pretty much had a quiet New Year’s Eve. We spent most of the night packing for our trip! We will leave as soon as we get up in the morning!

2010

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Happy 2010

Tags: 2010, Kentucky, sparklers, sparkles
Posted in Mississippi Life, Photography, Travel | 3 Comments »

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